I have CSS on the .art instance that puts a very discreet blue dashed border around media that doesn't have alt-text. It's a way for people to see at a glance if media is described before choosing to boost it or not.

I've been seeing some images on the TL recently that don't have a border but also don't have alt text. Looked a little closer and found out that they just have a space in the alt text. So it's posting without that blue border, but still has no alt text.

FFS, people. Not cool.

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@welshpixie Yeah it's the old malice vs stupidity thing or in this case maybe just hidden behavor. Though the CSS trick is nice it seems the best place to put this logic is in the js or ruby. It would also be better to surface this at compose time. I think Glitch does the latter. We'll probably pull that in and do the logic thing in Ecko at some point.

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Creating magic through evolution of the Fediverse. Running Ecko, a community-driven fork of Mastodon managed using the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4) by the Magic Stone Community. C4 is a protocol for asynchronous, non-blocking, distributed, problem-focused software development.